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In his first cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf vowed to resolve the energy crisis at the earliest. He issued a number of directives but those will only palliate the current crisis, not completely end it. An MPA (Member of Provincial Assembly) of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) proposed a significant step to the […]
Young Doctor Association (YDA)’s strike is continued in its eighth day by the time these words are written. The fresh lot of docs refused to attend over 35, 000 patients in the Outpatient Departments (OPDs) in different Punjab government hospitals against non-acceptance of their demands. The ongoing negotiations between representatives of YDA and the provincial […]
The black coats of Pakistan are certainly a very respected and honourable part of our society and have always been the voice raisers when all other attempts at breaking through a brick wall have failed. With the recent controversies that have emerged involving the son of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Ifthikar Muhammad, the minor […]
The entire country’s gaze was gripped on the National Assembly on Friday, as the end-result was not surprising at all. The Supreme Court sent home an elected chief executive and the timing of the arrest warrants for first replacement was a reminder that democratic system still treads on dangerous ground. The selection of candidate was […]
The Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) backed by coalition partners is required a simple majority to get its nominee elected as the new leader of the House and another one after his disqualification. The latest decision by the PPP to nominate Raja Pervez Ashraf for premiership will further exacerbate the ongoing confrontation between the apex court […]
The electricity crisis is not a new phenomenon in the country but the nation is being fed up with false promises of the government, ineptness of the bureaucracy, power outages of about 16 to 22 hours and the rising cost of energy. People, whether live in rural or urban areas, resorted to protests, mostly violent […]
Pakistan is one of those unique countries that have faced basically everything since the day they were carved on the world map; from natural disasters to wars, military dictatorship, terrorism, political instability and so much more. But now as democracy seems to be something that will continue and with the military struggling to sustain its […]
The apex court has apparently taken an extraordinary and an unfortunate step to disqualify a sitting and democratically elected prime minister of the country. The whole situation could have come out in a different way if the apex court had channelized a course of action that now brought the parliament, executive and the judiciary in […]
In a bid to safeguard the dignity of parliament, the treasury benches of the National Assembly passed a resolution in support of Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza’s ruling in the Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani’s case. However, the timing of the holy statement was more important than its text. The Supreme Court is might ready […]
Why the Supreme Courts ruling on Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani is Unconstitutional Unfortunately, the democratic process in Pakistan has once again come to a halt and seems like all steps taken in the past to ensure separations of powers amongst the highest institutions in the country have failed miserably as the Supreme Court termed […]
The present state of affairs will go to discredit the coalition partners of Sindh that they have failed to abandon Karachi, the business hub of the country, from killers and extortionists during the past half and four years. It will be a specialized task to manage a tally of the killed people in the metropolis […]
Everyone is talking about the latest scandal of behind-the-scenes footage of a private TV channel that hit the airwaves on Thursday. The leaked video, which appeared on YouTube, proves that the interview of Malik Riaz with Mehar Bokhari and Mubashar Lucman was planed and scripted. Malik Riaz, the real estate tycoon and central figure of […]
